Tert-octyl di (cyanomethyl) amine



V100% kncckdown 0f nies and a. kin cfg-61 against the Ofcial Test Insecticide.

. 3 specific gravity at 25 C. of 0.9209. The compound gave a knockdown of 79% in the Peet- Grady test against iiies. At a 1:400 dilution it gave a 100% kill of black bean aphids on beans and at 1 :1600 a 58% kill.

Example 4 4 C./30 mm. in a 45% yield. The refractive index at 20 C. was 1.4567.

This compound at 2% in kerosene gave 96% knockdown of -flies in the Peet-Grady test and a kill of 92% against the black bean aphid when 'f this compound was applied to infested bean There were mixed 204 parts by weight vof a hours at room temperature. The temperature The Vwas then raised to 70 C. for two hours. ,layers which formed were separated. The-oil layer was Washed with water three times, dried on calcium sulfate, and filtered. The material ,thus obtained was dodecyldicyanomethylamine. It had a refractive index at 25 C. of 1.4697 and .a specific gravity at 25 C. of 0.8747. This compound gave at a dilution of 11400 a kill of 99% of black bean aphids on beans and a kill of 20% against bean beetle larvae. It gave a 67% vkill .of .roaches in a. 1% kerosene solution. A combination of 1% of butoxyethoxyethyl thiocyanate and. 1.5% of the above amine in kerosene Agave Example 5 There were mixed 71.6 parts of a nonylamine of the formula (CH3)3CCH2CH(CH3) CHzCHzNHz, 286 parts of water, and 25 parts of 36% hydro- `plants ata dilution of 1:400. Against bean beetle larvae the'kill was 33% at a dilution of 1:100 and against army Worm 37%.

It is I of-interest that methyldlcyanomethylamine and allyldicyanomethylamine, as typical airlines with small aliphatic hydrocarbon groups,

I gave 0% knockdown in the Peet-Grady evaluachloric acid and thereto was added 82 parts of aqueous 37% formaldehyde solution. Thisrmixl ture was stirred for 11 hours, cooled to 10 C., and

treated with 27 parts of hydrogen cyanide with cooling to keep the reaction temperature below 20 C. Stirring was continued for an hour andl the reaction mixture was left standing for 48 hours. The oil layer was taken and washed i twice with water.

The washed product' was fractionally distilled at low pressure. At' 190 "C. '19 2 C./15 mm. the product obtained corre. .sponded in composition to nonyldicyanomethylfamine. 1.4570 and a density at 20 C. of 0.9223. This It had a refractive index at 20 C-.'of

nonyl groupis a 3,5,5-trimethylhexyl radical.

This compound when tested against black bean aphids gave a kill of 94% at a dilution of 1:400

and of 89% at a dilution of 1:3200. It'gave a. .klll of l60% of Mexican bean beetle larvae at a dilution of 1:100.

Example 6 There were mixedv 220 parts of tert-butylamine, 220 parts of water, and 30 parts of 36% hydrochloric acid.v With this mixture at 20 C.

therewas added 493 parts of 36.8% formaldehyde j solution.. The reaction mixture was stirred for 0.5 hour. There was then added over va period Y? of an hour 164.5 parts of hydrogen cyanide 'with control of` temperature with external cooling.

The reaction mixture was heated at 50 C. for two hours. Two layers formed. There was added 400 parts of benzene and the mixture was j vlheated under reflux with separation of water in a trap. The organic material was fractionally di stilled. The desired product, tert.butyldicy anomethylamine, was obtained at 170 C.;174f

of aphids at 1:'400.

" Example 7 By the proceduresv abovev there were mixed 328 parts of a hexylamine in which the alkyl group was obtained from propylene dimer, 234 partsof water, 32.5 -parts of 36% hydrochloric acid, 530

tion and 0% kill parts of 36.8% formaldehyde solution, and 175 *parts 'ofvhydrogen cyanide.. The mixture `was maintained below 20 C.- during the combining of *reactants and initial stage of reaction and then kept at C. for an hour.- The fraction taken at l93-C.-l96 C./30 was hexyldicyanomethylamine. It had a refractive index of 1.438

at 20 C. Aand a specific gravity at 20 C. of 0.9721.

It contained 23.3% of nitrogen (theory 23.4%). AThis compound gave a 99% -knockdown when tested at 2% by the Peet-Grady method anda kill of +4 v. O. T. I. :Against black bean aphids it gave a kill `of'88% when applied at a dilution of 1:400 anda kill of 53% at a'dilution of 1:3200. The kill of Mexican bean beetle larvae was 33%.

Th'e kill'vof milkweed` bug was 100% at 1:400 or at`1800 dilution and was 98% at 1:1600 and 51% at 1:3200. A 1% solution in kerosene gave a kill of 87% of German roaches compared to the 'result of 75 with the Ocial Test Insecticide.

The test data establish a high degree of insecticidal effectiveness for alkyldicyanomethylamines with alkyl groups of four-to twelve carbon atoms. Their primary value is as contact poisons, al-

though they have also` some stomach poison action, as shown by typical tests withbean beetle larvae and the like. The compounds with relativelylarge alkyl lgroups have also some fungicidal value, which increases withy size of vsuch toE ' amine, having the structure group, being marked in the caseof the dodecyl derivatives; We claim:

As' a new compound, tert.octyldicyanomethyl- 4 CH3) 3CCH2C (CH3) 2N CH2CN 2 W E CRAIG. MARTIN J. CULVER.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of recordin the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Numberv j ,Name

Date 2,164,781 Platz et al. July 4, 1939 l2,205,995 Ulrich et al June 5, 1940 Y FOREIGN Plxrliirrrsv -Number Country Date I" 404,744 Great Britain Jan. 25, 1934 OTHER REFERENCES I vKnoevenagel et al., Beilstein I (Handbuch, 4th

' ed), vo1.'4, p. 36s (1922,). 

